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profile Tony’s Magic Cloth Technique
The magic cloth technique refers to the dodging and burning of a digital sensor during exposure. It’s all about the sky!! The magic cloth technique was born out of the need to get the image right in the camera but to still increase the dynamic range of a scene. Under normal circumstances, the top part of a landscape is brighter than the lower half. Even with a mirror lake the difference can be a couple of stops. In order to get the best exposure of both the land and the sky, photographers have traditionally used filters which are darker at the top and clear at the bottom. These are...
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